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Old 08-12-2006, 07:46 PM posted to rec.gardens
Tracey Tracey is offline
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Default Please Help strange diesease on money plant!!!!!!!1



humpers30 wrote:
Tracey Wrote:

humpers30 wrote:-
hello i am a novice to plant care but i have had a money plant (i
think
thats what its called ) for the 10 years and it has been incredible
healthy until the last few months it has an infestation of some sort
either bug or fungi would love some help i will post some pics so u
cann see it

help greatly appreciated!!!!!

http://tinyurl.com/vsqv4
http://tinyurl.com/u3f62-

I'm going to go with mealybug. And your plant is more commonly known
as a jade plant. A money tree is something completely different.

Tracey





thnks so much i think that is it and i have found a websites to buy
there predators cant remember what there called but should be getting
them


No problem. There are only a few plant problems I can identify
with much accuracy. Spider mites are easy, scale is easy. I get
confused between mealybugs and powdery mildew sometimes because
the mealybugs will spread that white stuff over the leaves of the
plant which makes it look like powdery mildew. But those big lumps
of white that I saw on a few of the stems looks like mealybugs to
me. If you take a pointed object, you might be able to scrape off
the white stuff enough to find a bug down under there.

Tracey